Tour to Teotihuacan ancient pyramids

Informal walk to the city center

Registration

Inauguration

Regular talks

Poster session & Welcome party. All posters will be presented here.

Keynote talk by Gregory Grefenstette

Special event organized by Gregory Grefenstette

Tour to Monarch Butterfly wintering site

Keynote talk by Raymond Mooney

Special event organized by Raymond Mooney

Keynote talk by Kathleen McKeown

Special event organized by Kathleen McKeown

Awarding and closing ceremony

Tour to Xochicalco pyramids, Cacahuamilpa cave, and colonial city Taxco

Sunday 18

Cultural program and informal discussions

Excursion to Teotihuacan ancient pyramids

Informal walk to the city center

Monday 19

Lexical resources - Corpus-Based Knowledge Acquisition - Part-of-Speech Tagging - Sentence Splitting - Humor Analysis - Poster Session and Welcome Party

Registration

Inauguration

Lexical Resources

Integration of linguistic resources for Verb Classification: FrameNet Frame, WordNet Verb and Suggested Upper Merged Ontology

Ian Chow, Jonathan Webster

French EuroWordnet Lexical Database Improvements

Jacquin Christine, Desmontils Emmanuel, Monceaux Laura

Break & registration

Building a Large-Scale Commonsense Knowledge Base by Converting an Existing One in a Different Language

Yuchul Jung, Joo-Young Lee, Youngho Kim, Jaehyun Park, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Hae-Chang Rim

Corpus-Based Knowledge Acquisition

On Heads and Coordination in Valence Acquisition

Adam Przepiórkowski

Chinese Terminology Extraction using Window-based Contextual Information

Luning Ji, Mantai Sum, Qin Lu, Wenjie Li, Yirong Chen

Lunch

Baby steps towards a language model for Spanglish

Juan Carlos Franco, Thamar Solorio

Latent Variable Models for Causal Knowledge Acquisition

Takashi Inui, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

Break & registration

Part-of-Speech Tagging

Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Word Probability Based on Category Patterns

Mi-young Kang, Sung-won Jung, Kyung-soon Park, Hyuk-chul Kwon

Sentence Splitting

Tagging Sentence Boundaries in Biomedical Literature

Weijian Xuan, Stanley Watson, Fan Meng

Humor Analysis

Best paper award, second place:

Characterizing Humour: An Exploration of Features in Humorous Text

Rada Mihalcea, Stephen Pulman

Break & registration

Poster session & Welcome party. All posters will be presented here.

Tuesday 20

Morphology - Named Entity Recognition - Word Segmentation, Chunking - Grammar Formalisms - Word Sense Disambiguation and Discrimination

Keynote talk: Conquering Language: using NLP on a massive scale to build high dimensional language models from the Web

Break

Morphology

Finite-state Technology as a Programming Environment

Shuly Wintner

Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text with Perceptron Algorithm

Hasim Sak, Tunga Gungor, Murat Saraclar

Named Entity Recognition

Handling Conjunctions in Named Entities

Robert Dale, Pawel Mazur

Break

ANERsys: An Arabic Named Entity Recognition System based on Maximum Entropy.

Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José-Miguel Benedí

Applying Machine Learning to Chinese Entity Detection and Tracking

Donglei Qian, Wenjie Li, Chunfa Yuan, Qin Lu

Word Segmentation, Chunking

A Generalized Approach to Word Segmentation using Maximum Length Descending Frequency and Entropy Rate

Md. Aminul Islam, Diana Inkpen, Iluju Kiringa

Probabilistic Classifications with TBL

Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Ruy Luiz Milidiú

Lunch

Grammar Formalisms

The Non-Associativity of Polarized Tree-Based Grammars

Yael Cohen-Sygal, Shuly Wintner

Dependency Analysis of Clauses Using Parse Tree Kernels

Sang-Soo Kim, Seong-Bae Park, Sang-Jo Lee

Word Sense Disambiguation and Discrimination

Best paper award, third place:

Text categorization for improved priors of word meaning

Rob Koeling, Diana McCarthy, John Carroll

Case-Sensitivity of Classifier Algorithms: Complex Systems Disambiguate Tough Words Better

Harri M.T. Saarikoski, Steve Legrand, Alexander Gelbukh

Break

Word Clustering for Collocation-based Word Sense Disambiguation

Jin Peng, Xu Sun, Yunfang Wu

Rule-based Protein Term Identification with Help from Automatic Species Tagging

Xinglong Wang

Unsupervised Discrimination of Person Names in Web Contexts

Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni

Break

Special event organized by Gregory Grefenstette: Is NLP good for anything?

Wednesday 21

Cultural program and informal discussions

Excursion to Monarch Butterfly wintering site

Thursday 22

Temporal Expression Treatment - Syntax - Semantics. Emotion Analysis - Machine Translation - Natural Language Generation, Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Question Answering I

Keynote talk: Learning for Semantic Parsing

Raymond Mooney

Break

Temporal Expression Treatment

Evaluation of an automatic extension of temporal expression treatment to Catalan

Estela Saquete, Patricio Martínez-Barco, Rafael Muñoz

Syntax

Unsupervised Method for Parsing Coordinated Base Noun Phrases

Vasile Rus, Sireesha Ravi, Mihai Lintean, Philip McCarthy

Semantics. Emotion Analysis

The usefulness of Conceptual Representation during the identification of Semantic Variability Expressions

Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez, Andres Montoyo

Break

Representing Emotions with Linguistic Acuity

Hye-Jin Min, Jong C. Park

Machine Translation

An Evaluation of UNL Usability for High Quality Multilingualization and Projections for a Future UNL++ Language

Christian Boitet, Igor M. Boguslavskij, Jesus Cardeñosa

Transfer-based Machine Translation from Spanish-into Basque: reusability, standarization and open source

Iñaki Alegria, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru Mayor, Kepa Sarasola

Dependency-Based Chinese-English Statistical Machine Translation

Xiaodong Shi, Yidong Chen

Lunch

Asymmetric hybrid machine translation for languages with scarce resources

Algirdas Laukaitis, Olegas Vasilecas

CL Guided Korean-English Machine Translation System for Scientific Papers

YoungKIl Kim, Munpyo Hong, SangKyu Park

Comparing and Integrating Alignment Template and Standard Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

Lin Xu, Xiaoguang Cao, Bufeng Zhang, Mu Li

Natural Language Generation, Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Dependency Analysis and CBR to Bridge the Generation Gap in Template-Based NLG

Raquel Hervás Ballesteros, Pablo Gervás, Virginia Francisco Gilmartín

Break

Experiments on Generating Questions About Facts

Vasile Rus, Zhiqiang Cai, Arthur C. Graesser

Best student paper award:

Expert vs. Non-expert Tutoring: Dialogue Moves, Interaction Patterns and Multi-Utterance Turns

Xin Lu, Barbara Di Eugenio, Trina C. Kershaw, Stellan Ohlsson, Andrew Corrigan-Halpern

Question Answering I

The Negative Effect of Machine Translation on Cross-Lingual Question Answering

Sergio Ferrández, Antonio Ferrández

A Little Known Fact is . . . Answering Other Questions using Interest-markers

Majid Razmara, Leila Kosseim

Break

Special event organized by Raymond Mooney, topic to be announced.

Friday 23

Information Retrieval - Question Answering II - Text Summarization and Information Extraction - Text Categorization and Clustering - Spell-Checking

 NEW  Keynote talk: Text Summarization: News and Beyond

Kathleen McKeown

Break

Information Retrieval

A Competitive Term Selection Method for Information Retrieval

Franco Rojas-López, Héctor Jiménez-Salazar, David Pinto

Question Answering II

Best paper award, first place:

Enhancing Cross-Language Question Answering by Combining Multiple Question Translations

Rita Marina Aceves-Pérez, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda

Using Clustering Approaches to Open-Domain Question Answering

Youzheng Wu, Hideki Kashioka, Jun Zhao

Break

Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language

Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José Manuel Gómez

Text Summarization and Information Extraction

NEO-CORTEX: A Performant User-Oriented Multi-Document Summarization System

Florian Boudin, Juan Manuel Torres Moreno

Event-Based Summarization Using Time Features

Mingli Wu, Wenjie Li, Qin Lu, Kam-Fai Wong

Lunch

NLP-based curation of bacterial regulatory networks

Carlos Rodriguez-Penagos, Irma Martinez-Flores, Heladia Salgado, Julio Collado-Vides

Text Categorization and Clustering

Exploiting Category Information and Document Information to Improve Term Weighting for Text Categorization

Jingyang Li, Maosong Sun

On the impact of Lexical and Linguistic features in Genre and Domain-Based Text Categorization

Guillaume Cleuziou, Céline Poudat

Break

Clustering Narrow-Domain Short Texts by using the Kullback-Leibler Distance

David Pinto, José-Miguel Benedí, Paolo Rosso

Spell-Checking

A Mixed Trigrams Approach for Context Sensitive Spell Checking

Davide Fossati, Barbara Di Eugenio

Combining methods for the detection and correction of semantic hidden errors in Arabic texts

Chiraz Ben Othmane Zribi, Hanene Mejri, Mohamed Ben Ahmed

Break

Special event organized by Kathleen McKeown:  NEW  Evaluation: When does it help and when does it hurt?

Awarding and closing ceremony

Saturday 24

Cultural program and informal discussions

Excursion to Xochicalco ancient pyramids, Cacahuamilpa cave, and colonial city Taxco

Incorporating Passage Feature within Language Model Framework for Information Retrieval

Ke Dang, Tiejun Zhao, Haoliang Qi, Dequan Zheng